Landscape Architecture Magazine Vol. 102, N° 5 (2012)
16 Letters
Foreground
24 Now
Colorado has some ideas of its own about federal roadless rules; the ditches of Delaware could crawl, with new wetland life; more states are looking hard at rules for fracking fluids; and more.
Edited by Linda McIntyre
42 Species
How an incredible rare lotus escaped the antiflower policies of Mao Tse-tung; plus, the raisin tree may offer the cure that beer and eggs are said to provide the next mornig.
By Constance Casey
50 Food
A feast of ideas
Earlier this year, we asked readers hot they think landscape architecture, farming, and food go together. Here is what some of them said.
56 Practice
A More Accessible Exterior
There are new rules under the Americans with Disabilities Act that will change specs on all kinds of landscape items, including tennis courts and safety railings. We’ve culled a list of 10 of them
By Daniel Jost, Asla
64 Workstation
No scripting Required
Parametric modeling is just a fancy term for magic in visualization. For landscape architects, programs like Grasshopper for Rhino are increasingly useful for fast trials and errors.
By Jeff Herlitz
74 Goods
Hit the lights
Daytime in the landscape is only half the fun. These lighting designs can help out with the other half
By Lisa Speckhardt
Features
80 What Kate Orff Sees
Her career so far has been one of connecting people to the ecology around them. Now she is showing us how we are the industry in a stunning new book, Petrochemical America
By Melanie Rehak
98 Down by La Riviere
The new piers of Quebec City bring home the wild mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
By Adam Regn Arvidson, Fasla
110 Return trip
Michael Vergason, FASLA, lends a helping hand and hoof to a vacation rental turned home on the fragile coast of Rhode Island
By Jane Berger
The Back
126 Your Tent Has No First Amendment Rights
What did municipal leaders learn during the upwelling of the Occupy movement?
That they could usually change the rules about public space pretty fast.
By Lydia Depillis
140 Books
168 Display ad index
169 Buyer´s guide index
180 Forward
No Funds? No Contest
If designers keep chasing enough big project contests that don’t turn into anything for lack of money, some of the best ones arn´t going to bother
By Claire Weisz
Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 25 de mayo de 2012 - 08:30 | Actualizado: 25 de mayo de 2012 - 08:53 | PDF
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